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ALEXANDER D RODARTE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 16, 1946 – March 19, 1966
Service recordAlexander D Rodarte, of Compton, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 23
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Compton, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6E, Line 23
- JAMES EDMUND KEELERCorporal · March 19, 1966
- JIMMIE LEWIS WALLACE JRPrivate First Class · March 19, 1966
- JAMES PRITCHARD WILLIAMSCaptain · March 19, 1966
- MARVIN FOY GOODMAN JRLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
From Compton
- BARRY JAMES SITLERLance Corporal · December 10, 1965
- JOSEPH RAY REYNOLDSLance Corporal · March 4, 1966
- IGNACIO HUICOCHEA-REYNASpecialist Four · March 15, 1966
- PHILLIPS LAMARRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1966
- MELVIN BARBERSergeant · August 19, 1966
- ALEXANDER VERA HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- ROBERT EMMETT MURPHY JRPrivate First Class · December 21, 1966
- JAMES ANDERSON JRPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES GUPTONSpecialist Four · May 6, 1967
- TYRONE WRIGHTSpecialist Five · November 9, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.